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M - Fantasia Dramática

“And, 'twixt the shadows and frights of nocturnal splendors, My beloved will secretly be hiding. Say what you will, say what you may.” The sound of a distant whistle and theorbo calls a sleeping singer through the empty streets of Stuttgart in a midnight journey to the opera house. ‘dei notturni splendori’ is an experimental opera film made for the Staatsoper Stuttgart in the early months of the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown. Anderson Matthew captures the singer Helene Schneiderman through a midnight dream with a hand-cranked kino camera in an ecstatic 35mm photo roman, in search for her own performance of the Tarquinio Merula madrigal Folle é ben chi se crede from 1638.

When the bride and the groom go missing on the day of the wedding, the stressed-out mother of the bride recruits the best man, who is running late to the wedding, in a frantic search to find them before it’s too late.

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After a car accident, a skeptical New Yorker must call for help on a mysterious pay phone that responds only to '411'. He gets Information, and in a twist of fate, much more than that.

A poetic and nightmarish dive into the deranged mind of a psychotic little girl. Nina is 9 years old but isn’t like other little girls. Nina has two secrets, she has freed Tony the Monster who lives in the magical cave and she has just killed her parents.

On an island a blogger is followed by a mysterious drone

A popular feminist blogger receives a mysterious invitation to a secret society party, where she is faced with a choice to join an extreme cult or change her views forever.

A fisherman survives a deadly boat incident with a mysterious golden pocket watch that grants wishes, but at a steep cost. As a police officer seeks to revive his son, he discovers the dark power of the watch, leading to devastating consequences.

On his sixth birthday Robert receives three beautiful broken old birds in his mother's sitting room. A memory of an afternoon with tea and cake, lacy pink slips and a tale of an emperor with no skin.

When alone with his twin, Lucas is swallowed by his obsession

Having run out of weed, Norville visits his close friend and drug dealer Gary, only to find himself ravelled in an absurd conspiracy that only he can get to the bottom of.

Charles Dexter Ward, a young student of metaphysics, befriends Erich Zann, an elderly violinist who lives on the floor above him. Ward is fascinated by Zann's sinister yet wonderful music, which he hears late at night drifting down from above. But he discovers more then he bargains for when he peers at what beckons beyond that strange curtained window in Zann's room...

Elias is an I.T. technician preparing for an overnight gig. He thinks he's totally alone in the building and is about to find out he's wrong.

After missing her bus, Emilia finds herself at the mercy of vampiric powers that seek to claim her soul.

In early-colonial Australia, a timber feller, kept awake by his infant child’s cries of hunger, encounters something perturbing in the woods.

A quiet stroll through the imaginary world of Iblard, originally depicted in the paintings by Naohisa Inoue, influenced by Impressionism and Surrealism.

A cellist is murdered during a symphony concert. Shortly afterwards, the manager of the hall is found dead, an apparent suicide. But is it?

A man with a mission climbs the stairs of a haunted apartment building.